The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has sent a controversial lawsuit over the presidential swing state's strict new voter ID law back to a lower court, telling it to take another look at the impediments that voting rights activists have said may block hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania voters from getting a ballot in November.

Today is a bad day for American Democracy. A federal appeals court in Washington has ruled in a complex case that the political groups that are raising millions in anonymous donations from multi-millionaires in 2012 and not-so-secretly spending it on political attack ads do not have to reveal their donors.